Konstruktion sozialer Identität: Studien zum Reinheitsverständnis im antiken Judentum und im Neuen Testament

Konstruktion sozialer Identität: Studien zum Reinheitsverständnis im antiken Judentum und im Neuen Testament
Author: Milena Hasselman
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2022-09-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004524657

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Questions of purity are dealt with in a variety of ways in ancient texts. A key to understanding lies in the significance purity has for the construction, description and maintenance of social identity and how this affects representations of purity. Reinheitsfragen werden in antiken Texten vielfältig verhandelt. Ein Schlüssel zum Verständnis liegt dabei in der Frage, welche Bedeutung Reinheit für die Konstruktion, Beschreibung und den Erhalt sozialer Identität hat und wie sich dies auf Reinheitsdarstellungen auswirkt.

Dis/ability in Mark

Dis/ability in Mark
Author: Lena Michelle Nogossek-Raithel
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2023-10-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3111183335

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The gospel of Mark purposefully employs characters with specific and nuanced representations of dis/ability to portray the unique authority, the engaging message, and the mission of the Markan Jesus. Based on hermeneutical insights from Dis/ability Studies, this monograph is a contribution to the research of culturally and historically normalized corporeality in the biblical scriptures. At the core of the investigation are the healing narratives: passages that explicitly deal with a transformation from a described deviant bodily state to a positively valued corporeality. Lena Nogossek-Raithel not only analyzes the terminological and historical descriptions of these physical phenomena but also investigates their narrative function for the gospel text. The author argues that the images of dis/ability employed are far from accidental. Rather, they significantly influence the narrative’s structure and impact, embody its theological claims, and characterize its protagonist Jesus. With this thorough exegetical analysis, Nogossek-Raithel offers a firm historical foundation for anyone interested in the critical interpretation and theological application of the Markan healing narratives.

God, Grace, and Righteousness in Wisdom of Solomon and Paul's Letter to the Romans

God, Grace, and Righteousness in Wisdom of Solomon and Paul's Letter to the Romans
Author: Jonathan A. Linebaugh
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2013-09-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004257411

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In God, Grace, and Righteousness in Wisdom of Solomon and Paul's Letter to the Romans, Jonathan A. Linebaugh places the Wisdom of Solomon and the Letter to the Romans in conversation. Both texts discuss the relationship of Jew and Gentile, the meaning of God's grace and righteousness, and offer readings of Israel's scripture. These shared themes provide talking-points, initiating a dialogue on anthropology, soteriology, and hermeneutics. By listening in on this conversation, Linebaugh demonstrates that while these texts have much in common, the theologies they articulate are ultimately incommensurable because they think from different events - Wisdom from the pre-creational order crafted by Sophia and exemplified in the Exodus; Paul from the incongruous gift of Christ which justifies the ungodly.

Reformation Readings of Paul

Reformation Readings of Paul
Author: Michael Allen
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2015-09-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830840915

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In light of recent interest in whether the Protestant Reformers interpreted Paul correctly, this edited volume enables a more careful reading of the Reformers themselves. Each chapter pairs a Reformer with a Pauline text and brings together historical theologians and biblical scholars to examine these Reformation-era readings of Paul's letters.

Judaism in the Roman World

Judaism in the Roman World
Author: Martin Goodman
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2007
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004153098

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These collected studies, previously published in diverse places between 1990 and 2006, discuss important and controversial issues in the study of the development of Judaism in the Roman world from the first century C.E. to the fifth.

Early Christianity in Lycaonia and Adjacent Areas

Early Christianity in Lycaonia and Adjacent Areas
Author: Cilliers Breytenbach
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 1007
Release: 2017-12-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 900435252X

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This work gives a detailed survey of the rise and expansion of Christianity in ancient Lycaonia and adjacent areas, from Paul the apostle until the late 4th-century bishop of Iconium, Amphilochius. It is essentially based on hundreds of funerary inscriptions from Lycaonia, but takes into account all available literary evidence. It maps the expansion of Christianity in the region and describes the practice of name-giving among Christians, their household and family structures, occupations, and use of verse inscriptions. It gives special attention to forms of charity, the reception of biblical tradition, the authority and leadership of the clergy, popular theology and forms of ascetic Christianity in Lycaonia.

Ancient Readers and their Scriptures

Ancient Readers and their Scriptures
Author: Garrick Allen
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2018-10-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004383379

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Ancient Readers and their Scriptures explores the ways that ancient Jews and Christians interpreted the Hebrew Bible in antiquity, focusing on the processes of reading that are preserved in the textual and material record of the corpora that engage Jewish scripture.

Reading the Gospel of John’s Christology as Jewish Messianism

Reading the Gospel of John’s Christology as Jewish Messianism
Author: Benjamin Reynolds
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004376046

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The essays in Reading the Gospel of John’s Christology as Jewish Messianism: Royal, Prophetic, and Divine Messiahs seek to interpret John’s Jesus as part of Second Temple Jewish messianic expectations.

Simeon the Righteous in Rabbinic Literature

Simeon the Righteous in Rabbinic Literature
Author: Amram Tropper
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-01-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004245022

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In Simeon the Righteous in Rabbinic Literature: A Legend Reinvented, Amram Tropper investigates the rabbinic traditions about Simeon the Righteous, a renowned Jewish leader of Second Temple times. Tropper not only interprets these traditions from a literary perspective but also deploys a relatively new critical approach towards rabbinic literature with which he explores the formation history of the traditions. With the help of this approach, Tropper seeks to uncover the literary and cultural matrices, both rabbinic and Graeco-Roman, which supplied the raw materials and literary inspiration to the rabbinic authors and editors of the traditions. Tropper’s analysis reveals that in reinventing the legend of Simeon the Righteous, the rabbis constructed the Second Temple past in the image of their own present.

Authority and Identity in Emerging Christianities in Asia Minor and Greece

Authority and Identity in Emerging Christianities in Asia Minor and Greece
Author: Cilliers Breytenbach
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2018-06-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004367195

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This book explores how the early Christians constructed, developed, and asserted their identity and authority in Asia Minor and Greece in the first five centuries CE.